OCLC and ProQuest are working together to transition current EBL and ebrary subscribers to ProQuest Ebook Central.

In the coming months, ProQuest will contact EBL and ebrary subscribers to proactively identify transition dates that align with their local library needs and then work with OCLC to finalize. Libraries may also contact their ProQuest representative at their convenience to discuss further.

During this transition, OCLC services related to EBL and ebrary, including direct holdings feeds (to automatically keep collections up to date) and DDA options, will remain the same.

If you are new to ProQuest and/or OCLC, please continue reading and use the instructions on this page to get started with ProQuest Ebook Central.

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Verify your collections have not been manually selected

If your institution has manually selected a collection or titles in a collection, OCLC will not overwrite your selections. Before the initial load of holdings from your provider, we recommend that you verify that the collection has not be manually selected.

Once you have returned the collection in a search, perform one of the following:

If the collection is selected in FULL: You will need to deselect it. Our system will not be able to overwrite the collection with the title data directly from your provider. If you have holdings set in WorldCat, de-selecting the collection will remove these holdings. Holdings will be added after OCLC loads the collection (as long as in institution settings, WorldCat Holdings is enabled)

If the collection is partially selected to reflect a subset of the titles available in the collections: The system will overwrite your title selections and collection data. If you want to preserve the title selections and collection data before OCLC overwrites it, do so before making a request for your collection to be loaded by OCLC. Within your collection, navigate to Titles > More Actions. Use the option to Download titles in local holdings and choose a format to download a spreadsheet of your title data

If the collection is NOT selected: Proceed to request automated collection loading

Request collection loading

Collection names and IDs

There are many collections in the global WorldCat knowledge base. Use the collection data in the table to help you find the relevant collections. If your collection is not returned when you search within Collection Manager, try entering a root word and an asterisk (*) as a truncation operator. For example: Ebook Central*

How to request collection loading

Contact OCLC Support with the following message. Replace [xxx] with your information.

Please load my ProQuest Ebook Central collections.

My OCLC Symbol is [xxx].

My Registry ID is [xxx].

My ProQuest Ebook Central site id is [xxx].

See if your collection loaded

We recommend that you wait until your collection is available before you proceed so that all of the settings will be available in Collection Manager.

The amount of time it takes for your titles to be available depends on the timing of your request, how often your provider sends data, when OCLC's loads the data, and the place of your institution's data in a queue. The time for the initial loading process varies from about one week to one month.

Choose the instructions that apply to your needs

Get WorldCat MARC records

Record delivery is available to libraries with and to libraries without an OCLC Cataloging Subscription. The functionality to enable WorldCat holdings is relevant to libraries with an OCLC Cataloging Subscription.